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A rat in the New York City Subway. Rats in New York City are widespread, as they are in many densely populated areas. They are considered a cultural symbol of the city. [1] For a long time, the number of rats in New York City was unknown, and a common urban legend declared there were up to five times as many rats as people.
The latest chapter of New York’s centuries-long war on rats has the city throwing everything at the problem—from enforcing new garbage laws, to enlisting bands of vigilante rat-hunters, to ...
Rat Rock is an outcrop of Manhattan schist between 600 and 604 West 114th Street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.The boulder measures approximately 30 feet (9.1 m) high and 100 feet (30 m) long; it is notable as one of the only remaining such rocks remaining in Manhattan's street grid. [1]
“The rat is the third most successful mammal behind humans and house mice. So it evolved and engineered to live alongside us,” New York City rat czar Kathleen Corradi said during a break at a New Orleans conference on improving pest management. “They followed humans, Homo sapiens, across the continents and are in every single continent ...
New York City hired its first-ever "Rat Czar" in 2023, and an investigation by CBS New York found rats had an increase of more than 7% since the Adams administration took office in 2022 and ...
A rat runs across a sidewalk in the snow in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 2, 2019. How climate change might cause the urban rat population to increase
The major culprit for the large rat population in New York City is poor garbage management—largely due to the city’s high population that generates a massive amount of waste, Carpenter says.
Indeed, rats in New York City are famous for their size and prevalence. The urban legend that the rat population in Manhattan equals that of its human population was definitively refuted by Robert Sullivan in his book Rats but illustrates New Yorkers' awareness of the presence, and on occasion boldness and cleverness, of the rodents. [48]